Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit October 6, 1976, 1292, Docket 76-1083 (United States v. James M. Hendrix)

VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

Appellant was convicted of second degree murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1111 for the killing of a fellow crewman on the S.S. Eagle Voyager while it was docked at the port of Odessa, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. We need not review the details of the slaying, except to state that it was a bloody and brutal affair.